RE: With 1,135,064 Accounts on STEEM...How Can You Stick Out From The Noise?
Thanks for the clarification @gadrian about the new account creation process. Maybe it's me being a bit slow. HF20 makes it easier and quicker to create accounts, but how does it actually attract or bring or more users? Non Steemians will likely hear of Steemit via friends or find out about it on social media, crypto news etc. And think, yeah, I wanna be part of that. How the account is actually created is transparent to them, and they probably don't know they have to wait 3 weeks pre HF20, and less post.
So based on my understanding, HF20 will make it easier for people to onboard Steemit as you have explained, but I still struggle to see how it will bring on more users. Unless there's a massive campaign to attract new users, pre or post HF20 makes no difference to new sign up numbers, ie bringing on more users to Steemit. Maybe I'm missing something or maybe I've misunderstood something.... which does tend to happen ^_^
Steem is much larger than Steemit, and that's why I try as much as I can to advise people to say Steem whenever they can, unless they really mean Steemit (which they rarely do).
The quicker onboarding will not come from Steemit, unless they give up the verification phase, which I doubt they will!
It will come from various other DApps which have been waiting for the opportunity. That's where the new flood of users will come from. And the DApps themselves, or their users will be the ones doing the promotion, but they won't promote steemit.com, they will promote the DApp, like DTube, DLive, Busy.org, SteemMonsters, Actifit etc.
I believe DApps which will have the process set up to sign up people using discounted accounts will let their users know, so that they can help in the promotion efforts to make that DApp known outside the Steem ecosystem and sign up more people.
Thanks, that makes a bit more sense now.
Adrian for the win :)
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